During meditation, I immerse myself in another reality.
At first, I break through rings of clouds: dark at the beginning, then gray, then bright and thin.
Sometimes luminous circles appear. They fall upon me and scatter.
I am aware that I am in my bedroom, but the place feels very distant — like a memory from centuries ago.
I struggle to recall the furniture, the colors, the bed I am lying on, as though light-years separated me from that reality.
The Earth shrinks in my imagination to a tiny dot... and then disappears.
I have the sensation that my brain is being sucked into a vast vacuum, that my skull is about to explode.
As I follow my breath, I feel I am not breathing downward into my lungs,
but upward. It is hard even to imagine the opposite direction.
Quickly, I detach from my body, which, in human terms, falls asleep. I completely forget it.
I do not feel my breath. Instead, my consciousness expands, deepens, sharpens.
Often a small light emerges far away. It pierces the mist like a torch slowly tracing circles.
Then the darkness turns into a deep navy space, filled with tiny silver points, like a star-strewn night sky.
In this state, I have several times seen real people. People just like us.
A circle opened in the navy-blue space. And within it — some scene of life.
Once, it was a snow-covered pine, with a man chopping a branch beside it.
Another time, I saw the torso of a man lifting weights. He was sitting, while a woman leaned over him.
Recently, I looked into the interior of a subway station. People were descending the stairs, a crowd like any other.
I studied their faces, their profiles. They looked completely ordinary, dressed like us. Their faces were just like ours.
Only one thing struck me: no one was speaking to anyone.
I felt as though I were staring wide-eyed, desperate to memorize every detail. And yet… my eyes were closed.
And suddenly, everything vanished. I fell back to Earth.
When I clenched my eyelids shut, I saw only grey-silver squares, a pattern like the skin of a snake…
and the outline of a white sphere, half-covered in shadow.
It did not feel like a dream or a product of my imagination.
I truly saw it.
I was not there in body, but with my eyes… and in consciousness.
And if I was THERE... then where?
Does another Earth exist? Identical to ours?